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I study authoritarianism for a living. It doesn’t pay well. PhD in Cultural Analysis. Founder of The Fire These Times, part of @fromtheperiphery.bsky.social Newsletter: Hauntologies.net. 🇬🇧-based, from Ain Saadeh 🇱🇧
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Can universities pls stop requiring applicants to manually insert every detail of our CV given that you also ask us to upload our CV anyway? Why are you making us re-write our CVs each time? It's difficult as it is to find jobs

Andor just keeps being too real.

Billionaires have more class solidarity than we do.

UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

I think Trump’s making it very dangerous for himself is all I’ll say here

All of this bcs we haven’t figured out a way as a society to teach boys how to deal with their emotions instead of being the broken wrecking balls that are Trump, Musk, Hegseth and their ilk

This is literally extortion

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Hong Kong’s oldest pro-democracy party, which became an influential voice of opposition before Beijing cracked down on dissent, will start preparations to shut down, its leader has said. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

This is also the logical conclusion of decades now of slow mainstreaming of far-right talking points Islamophobia, transphobia, anti-immigration discourses were never "legitimate grievances" that deserved to be aired. Their purpose was to prepare the way for this

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

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This whole saga has, I think, demonstrated very well my contention that American political journalists believe that they deserve all of the respect and deference that comes with filling a vital societal role, while rejecting the idea that holding such a position also entails duties and obligations.

Listen when we say that Trump views himself as a literal God-king we are not being metaphorical www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

National Gallery of Australia literally had Pacific Indigenous art collective SaVĀge K’lub cover up the Palestinian flag in their work days before the opening of their exhibition. This racist censorship is rife throughout the arts in Australia, it is disgusting! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Today, Russian state media outlet Sputnik officially opened a new broadcast center or "Africa hub" in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A ceremony for the launch was attended by Ethiopian parliamentary speaker Agegnehu Teshager, and Valentina Matvienko, Russia's Federation Council speaker. The event is...

Always this. This was true in 2016 and it is true today. Be more like Spain — stop pandering to the extreme right and make the positive case for immigration. It’s a wonderful thing culturally and an economic necessity

Treated like criminals, deprived of lawyers and translators, imprisoned and prevented from even going outside, no ability to claim asylum, and being pressured to return to the places they escaped from www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yh I wouldn’t underestimate how quickly it can even become taboo to own a Tesla. He can court the MAGA world all he wants, it won’t be enough

Virtually everyone I know in Germany who is a person of colour or connected to one is really worried, some trying to leave, others describing the mood as terrifying. If you’re involved in organising there feel free to include resources in the replies

The world according to the rich is untrustworthy, lonely, full of enemies, not worth it

“soon to join Protector is its sister app, Patrol, a similar Pinkerton-on-demand service that'll allow homeowners to crowdfund off-duty cops and military veterans to rove around their neighborhoods in private security cruisers.”

hey hey These are Nazis

What Trump is demanding of Ukraine is a higher share of the country’s GDP than Germany’s WWI reparations. He essentially wants Ukraine punished for refusing to submit to Russian imperialism.

We no longer need book burning if the state preemptively bans books that would be burned. Ironically, this is an eg of Arendtian banality of evil. The ppl that are part of the mechanism of book banning do not need to do anything too spectacular. They just need to comply with an order, one by one.

A good reminder to everyone that those who claim to be biological determinists don’t know biology

So those horrible NYT headlines that are profoundly inhuman may be indeed not human futurism.com/new-york-tim...

It has become so normalised for the Israelis to be attacking UN schools all the time

Some happy news. Leonard Peltier is free. The FBI accused him of murder without ever providing any evidence, and he spent nearly 50 years of his life in jail. www.huffpost.com/entry/leonar...

The sent riot police to shut down the event with Albanese and Weizman in Berlin. Just compare the resources German politicians are willing to spend on silencing critical Jewish voices on Israel versus the resources they’re spending tackling the literal Nazis on their streets

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Next up, the NYT discusses the pros and cons of lebensraum

The White House did the thing of confusing us knowing more about autism since the 1980s with there being more autism. It’s a common mistake in conspiracy theorist circles so you can tell where they’re getting their info from. This can hurt autistic kids.

Useful Project 2025 tracker www.project2025.observer

There’s a Measles outbreak out of Texas among the unvaccinated. They’re out to kill children and this shit can spread globally. Shouldn’t the rest of the world take extra precautions for travellers from the US?